On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Robert Fuller <hydrologiccy...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Rocky Bernstein <ro...@gnu.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Pete Batard <pbat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> This one is fairly straightforward, but I'll sent it to the list > >> nonetheless. > >> > >> The issue here is that when not compiling a C++, MSVC compilers do not > >> accept variables to be defined after code, and the MMC_CMD_SETUP() macro > >> does define a cdb variable. > >> > > > > Yes, the intention is have all declarations in a come before statements > as > > C99 wants. So thanks. It is possible I'll merge this into trunk sooner > than > > the rest. > > I think you mean C89 or C90. Yes. Thanks for the correction. > C99 added support for inter-mingled > statements and declarations. This brings up an important point. MSVC > does not support C99 and Microsoft has no stated plans to support it. > That was one reason I chose not to support MSVC in my own ripper. I > was taking advantage of some C99 features and the trade-off of > removing them to support MSVC was not worth it, for my project. > > Rob > >
